Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.37

c12.37

The strength and thoroughness of the draftsmanship can only be fully appreciated by examining the original with a magnifying glass, but the enlargement of half the figure to twice the original size which is given in Plate LIX. will give some idea of them. It speaks much for the artist’s technique that it can be so much enlarged without losing any of its fine quality, and we can understand from this that the Mogul artists’ fresco paintings on a large scale, of which only a few fragments now remain, must have been quite as remarkable as their miniature work.¹